My identifying with work, and all the problems
and the identification that I've proclaimed in which
I'm part of the problem due to partaking with the
whirlwind, then caring... I care due to this
identification with, even if what I identify with is
negative. I know I identify with what is positive in
my life, too. So... caring is this identifying with
something, which in turn is 'just fixing'. I see a
problem, and I'm trying to fix it. I'm trying to
figure out how to not only feel better, but fix
reality. Reality just is quality. Reality is caring
and quality that is in motion - a motion of flux
called fixing. Fixing may imply something's wrong.
Are all of us viewing something is wrong here and so
we are 'just fixing'? That seems to be one conclusion
one may draw from this quote.
woods,
SA
[Marsha quoting ZMM]
> Caring:
>
> "Zen Buddhists talk about ``just sitting,'' a
> meditative practice in
> which the idea of a duality of self and object does
> not dominate
> one's consciousness. What I'm talking about here in
> motorcycle
> maintenance is ``just fixing,'' in which the idea of
> a duality of
> self and object doesn't dominate one's
> consciousness. When one isn't
> dominated by feelings of separateness from what he's
> working on, then
> one can be said to ``care'' about what he's doing.
> That is what
> caring really is, a feeling of identification with
> what one's doing.
> When one has this feeling then he also sees the
> inverse side of
> caring, Quality itself.
>
> So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as
> in any other
> task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does
> not separate one's
> self from one's surroundings. When that is done
> successfully then
> everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind
> produces right
> values, right values produce right thoughts. Right
> thoughts produce
> right actions and right actions produce work which
> will be a material
> reflection for others to see of the serenity at the
> center of it all.
> That was what it was about that wall in Korea. It
> was a material
> reflection of a spiritual reality.
>
> I think that if we are going to reform the world,
> and make it a
> better place to live in, the way to do it is not
> with talk about
> relationships of a political nature, which are
> inevitably dualistic,
> full of subjects and objects and their relationship
> to one another;
> or with programs full of things for other people to
> do. I think that
> kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes
> the end is the
> beginning. Programs of a political nature are
> important end products
> of social quality that can be effective only if the
> underlying
> structure of social values is right. The social
> values are right only
> if the individual values are right. The place to
> improve the world is
> first in one's own heart and head and hands, and
> then work outward
> from there. Other people can talk about how to
> expand the destiny of
> mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a
> motorcycle. I think
> that what I have to say has more lasting value. "
> (ZMM, Chapter 25)
>
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